Intellectual Property Rights

As an educational institution, Coastal Carolina Community College fosters and facilitates creative thinking and innovation. Many students have the opportunity to develop original ideas that can benefit the public and private sector. This policy is intended to encourage innovation and to clarify the students’ and the College’s rights to intellectual property.

“Intellectual property” includes all inventions, improvements, copyright-eligible works, and tangible research materials produced by students of Coastal Carolina Community College.